The first trip was to attend
Mother's funeral. Mother died in her sleep on March 8th, and the funeral was on
the 14th of March. Her three sons, Dean, Ed and myself went back for a
mixed Christian and Chinese tradition ceremony.

The second trip was during the
summer, and I went back by myself to bring Father to live with us in Tennessee.
He traveled a bit to say goodbye to his friends and I traveled south. Then I
tried to clean up what mother had left at home and my old personal stuff: